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Rethinking Multi-View Fusion for Urban Representation Learning

arXiv机器学习 2026-10-23 03:32 3 阅读 查看原文

Urban region representation learning encodes heterogeneous urban signals, such as mobility flows, points of interest, and land-use patterns, into unified embeddings for downstream tasks, including check-in prediction, crime forecasting, and service demand estimation. Existing approaches rely on globally shared fusion and joint optimization, implicitly assuming uniform modality importance and naturally balanced multi-objective training. However, urban data is inherently heterogeneous. Our empirical analysis reveals two structural issues:

  • (i) modality utility varies markedly across regions, causing static fusion to overemphasize signals from certain modalities; and
  • (ii) heterogeneous objectives exhibit persistent gradient imbalance, causing representational bias and unstable training.

We present PRISM, a self-adjusting framework for adaptive multi-view learning. PRISM adapts sparse MoE routing to learn region-specific view allocations, while a PID (Proportional Integral Derivative)-inspired regulation mechanism mitigates gradient conflicts during optimization. Experiments on three large-scale urban datasets show that PRISM achieves competitive performance compared with strong multi-view baselines, while providing more stable optimization behavior and more balanced region representations.